- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : sd., col. NTSC
- Summary
- Performance of a work titled Strategic zig zags: celebrating Samory's tap tap on the French colonial drumheads. The work consists of text and music ; there is no dance content. According to the program, Almamy Samory Turay (also known as Samori Toure) "was the greatest West African leader of the 19th century -- 'the Napoleon of the Sudan' -- and the finest example of African dignity expressed in resistance."
- Alternative Title
- Strategic zig zags
- Subject
- Samory, approximately 1830-1900
- Genre/Form
- Note
- This performance was videotaped by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library with the cooperation of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Badenya Organizing Committee, Mamadou Niang, John Jay College Theater, The City University of New York.
- Name of musical group spelled Fire Spitters on accompanying house program.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Credits (note)
- Badenya Organizing Committee: chair, Kewulay Kamara, and Sherrif Ceesay, Babou Kassé, Mamadou Niang, Mahamadou Salieu Suso ; Center for Traditional Music and Dance, artistic and executive director, Ethel Raim ; sound, Douglas Rice ; lighting, Violet Lee.
- Performer (note)
- Introduced by Tom van Buren and Kewulay Kamara.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in performance at John Jay College Theater, The City University of New York, New York, on May 30, 1998. Video production: director, Mamadou Niang ; cameras, Ghasem Ebrahimian, Mark Braverman ; editing, François Bernadi.
- Funding (note)
- This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 2459
- OCLC
- NYPY99-F380
- Title
Badenya '98, Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters [electronic resource] : a tribute to Samory Turay and his time ; a festival of oral tradition, music, and dance of West Africa / presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in collaboration with the Badenya Organizing Committee ; concept design, organizing committee chair and master of ceremonies, Kewulay Kamara ; project director, Tom van Buren.
- Imprint
c1998.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Event
Videotaped in performance at John Jay College Theater, The City University of New York, New York, on May 30, 1998. Video production: director, Mamadou Niang ; cameras, Ghasem Ebrahimian, Mark Braverman ; editing, François Bernadi.
- Credits
Badenya Organizing Committee: chair, Kewulay Kamara, and Sherrif Ceesay, Babou Kassé, Mamadou Niang, Mahamadou Salieu Suso ; Center for Traditional Music and Dance, artistic and executive director, Ethel Raim ; sound, Douglas Rice ; lighting, Violet Lee.
- Performer
Introduced by Tom van Buren and Kewulay Kamara.
Performed by Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters: Bern Nix (guitar), Denardo Coleman (drums), Alex Harding (baritone saxophone), Harnett Moffett (bass).
- Funding
This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The assistance of New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5834 cassette four.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cortez, Jayne. Performer
Nix, Bern. Instrumentalist
Coleman, Ornette Denardo. Instrumentalist
Van Buren, Tom. Speaker. Director
Kamara, Kewulay, host.
Kamara, Kewulay, speaker.
Lee, Violet. Lighting designer
Niang, Mamadou. Videographer
Firespitters (Musical group)
Center for Traditional Music and Dance (New York, N.Y.)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Theater.
New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Badenya '98 (Festival)
DHCA.
- Found In:
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIC 9-5834 cassette four (former)